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Jeanette Jobson is a visual artist who lives and works in Flatrock, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. She was born in Nova Scotia, grew up in Newfoundland, and lived in Ireland and the United Kingdom for fourteen years, before returning to the province in 1988. She studied fine art under the mentorship of Tom Greenshields in the UK for in the 1980s, in addition to a variety of workshops and self study.

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Jeanette Jobson is a visual artist who lives and works in Flatrock, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. She was born in Nova Scotia, grew up in Newfoundland, and lived in Ireland and the United Kingdom for fourteen years, before returning to the province in 1988. She studied fine art under the mentorship of Tom Greenshields in the UK for in the 1980s, in addition to a variety of workshops and self study.

For thirty years, she has explored the world in a variety of mediums and subjects, with her work evolving over time into a current mix of representational and impressionist work using traditional and gyotaku techniques.

After completing an intensive year of studying the Japanese fish printing technique of gyotaku , her focus is on the environment the fish live in - water. She has devoted time at the board and mentor levels to the local arts community, as well as online visual art forums. She also offers workshops to enable others to learn the technique and history of gyotaku and to encourage drawing skills.

Her work is in the collection of the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador and has been exhibited in The Rooms as part of the Arts & Letters Competition, as well as being in private collections and commissions in Canada, USA, England and New Zealand.